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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
Exactly the point, nobody cares. Just like nobody cared in 2007. There is no secret conspiracy by the conferences, no secret buyouts or bribes by bowl officials
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The schools involved care, we wouldn't be in that scenario.
Conspiracy? That's absurd but ticket guarantees happen routinely. It's not a conspiracy nor was it unique to KU & the OB in '07 (I can't tell for sure if you're comment has to do w/ KU's supposed 30k ticket guarantee or whatever it was), but it's how business is done in that regard. Schools regularly guarantee an allotment of ticket purchases for a bowl game whether they can actually sell them or not. In fact I would venture to say it happens in the case of every bowl it's written into the contracts, just a matter of haggling on the #'s.
Obviously it's conjecture if that is what tipped the scales in KU's favor to get that bid. No one will ever actually be able to prove that one way or the other but it would or could certainly be enough motivation for a bowl to pick one school over another depending on circumstances that they necessarily wouldn't have otherwise. It would speak to Alden and the MU AD as a whole getting beat to the punch by Perkins and the KU AD if it did occur and frankly wouldn't surprise me although to be honest that's driven in part by my less than sterling opinion of Mike Alden.
Too many people don't understand or accept how bowls work and also have bought into this BCS end all bill of goods. Is Central Fla better than Mich St b/c the latter will be in the CapOne and the former the Sugar?! Or South Carolina who beat them but will be in the CapOne or Outback Bowl! Obviously not.